So pretty surprisingly PFF still has him ranked the 15th best QB with a grade of 71.2
right behind Lamar who grades at 72.2
Seems right to me. His basement is league average, when things aren't clicking. It's also the reason people shouldn't just flat out give up on him. He just has too much talent to fail if the rest of the shit show around him gets cleaned up. Too much arm talent, too much accuracy, too much good film out there.
The league got an off-season to dismantle his entire game and scheme towards short circuiting his strengths. Similar to the progression Favre went through, he now needs to make adjustments and put DC's back on their heels a bit. Our head coach could help in that process too by mixing up tendencies on down and distance, as well as route combinations. We need more release valve routes and we have to be better about picking our spots downfield. Baker also needs to be better at trusting his eyes and just reacting.....vs. trying to see guys open.
Someone mentioned it earlier but given their play styles, Favre would seem to be the glass half full view on Mayfield at this point. Brett saw a dramatic statical swing in the red in year 2 as a full time player......not unlike what Baker is seeing through 5 games.
1992: 64% completion, 3227 yards, 18 TD's, 13 INT's, 2.8% INT, 6.9 YPA, 85.3 rating
1993: 60% completion, 3303 yards, 19 TD's, 24 INT's, 4.6% INT, 6.3 YPA, 72.2 rating
Favre's and Mayfield's INT% increases are very similar. 72% for Mayfield, 63% for Favre. Mayfield's rating gap is a bit larger but still both were large drops.
The one large concern is Baker's sack rate is astronomical. 1 sack per 10 pass attempts. That rate has doubled this season vs. last. I don't know if anyone has done protection analysis on sacks but even if you throw out half of that increase as Baker's fault, it still intimates we have some pretty horrific protection problems.